How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "web space hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The site hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the contemporary webspace hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met most web hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be very attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you becoming bewildered? We unquestionably are!

Weakness No.2: The very same email folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain name manipulation menus

Do we have to cite the complete deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a gigantic problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Multiple login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support management menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the billing tool (particularly devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the zealous clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel areas to learn... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting suppliers:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...